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Adaptive Learning is technology that students are allowed to use to help them learn and understand new material that is being presented to them. This technology aids the students in their education because it is not just standard textbook information that they are working with.
 * Definition:**

Using Adaptive Learning will help break the barrier for learning for some students. It is a technology that tailors to individual students needs by giving them questions and information that is at their level of understanding. This technology and programs helps us as educators to understand the data of individual students and also understands the student because it interprets how the student answers questions. It then can help the student by having practice and instruction that is meant for that individual student.A warning for educators is that you can't rely on adaptive learning to tell you why the student is not excelling at a certain topic. Adaptive learning is to enhance learning for students, by offering several ways for the information to be given or shown. When teaching to a class a teacher can sometimes tell when students aren't quite getting the material. This is when adaptive learning can come into play. Adaptive learning is not always meant for whole class instruction, but more for individual students who need the extra help to get to the same level of the rest of the class.
 * Best Practices for an Educator:**


 * Three Annotated Websites:**

1. In the Time article on Adapted Learning it talks on how Adaptive Learning could put an end once and for all to the one size fits all classroom. This article gives information on what Adaptive Learning is and how it will help enhance student learning. 2. The Knewton Blog gives an insight into what the Company Knewton does with Adaptive Learning. It explains the technology that they have created to try and help understand the barriers between students and learning. They have invested in many programs to help understand the data of students and how to interpret the data to help students with individual programs to help them learn the new material. 3. In the Teach Thought article it gives us examples of some Adaptive Learning tools. The examples in this are apps that can be on tablets and phones which are now getting to be a normal within many classrooms. These apps range from vocabulary to math and many more. In this article it lists 10 different apps that are used with Adaptive Learning and what they are and how they will help the student.